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Mar 15 / Amy

Just Another Monday

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Most people go to work on Monday and drink their coffee and do their JOB. I just captured a squirrel using a string attached to a stick that was holding up a clear rubbermaid baited with an apple core and a banana peel with peanut butter spread on it. Click to read more and watch the video of it.

Mar 11 / Amy

Come to Think of it, My Brother John is Kind of a Jerk

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…There I would be, riding gaily down the sidewalk on my pink banana seat Schwinn, listening to a Disney tape that I had in a portable cassette player in the basket of my bike, when John would come out of nowhere to burn my tires. I never knew he was there until he was about fifteen feet away, and by then it was too late. In nervous terror I would look over my shoulder and there he was, with his growth stunted legs pumping those pedals (so help me God, he reached speeds of thirty miles an hour), hellbent on catching me. “Better ride faster, I’m gonnnnnnnnnna get you,” he taunted, knowing full well that I couldn’t out run him. Two seconds later came the burn… read more

Mar 2 / Amy

Why People Shouldn’t Give Me Tickets to Things

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…At the time I was pretty sure this was Lou Holtz. Looking at it now I see that it is not all all him. But they both wear glasses, so you can see where the confusion might come from… click to read what else I was looking at instead of the game.

Feb 24 / Amy

Nailed It!

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Now that my family has all of these terrible vices like “eating food” and “paying the electric bill” it’s time for me to work again with some frequency. For the past few years it’s been people who already know me who have have entrusted their children to me, so if I say something like vagina fart they’re just like oh ha ha ha, that’s just Amy and it in no way makes me want to pay her less in fact, I think I’ll give her a raise and buy her a doughnut… click to read more

Feb 12 / Amy

Like swallows to wherever the hell it is they supposedly go-capasomething? Anyway, there are squirrels in my roof again.

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Exciting news: The roof squirrels are back for another season!  There haven’t been any antics thus far–just nest building with squirrel-like materials–but they look to be revving up for something hard core because we see them out there all day long dragging lair building materials up into our porch roof.  Steve caught one of… [keep reading]

Feb 4 / Amy

I’m pretty sure I’m going to be asked to leave any second now

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Seeing as how I do not actually go to school here, and therefore have no right to use said library or nap chairs, I try to fit in when I come to the business school so I don’t get kicked out. Here are a couple of reasons why I’m not fooling anyone.

1. Instead of a brief case or a Coach bag, I am carrying a backpack with my name on the front of it. It smells vaguely of cat pee.

Feb 2 / Amy

It was funny… and then it sucked.

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Yet again, Durham went crazy. But this time there were bad ass boot chains.